INTERPROFISSIONALIDADE NA ÁREA DA SAÚDE PÚBLICA BRASILEIRA

Abstract

This study was carried out with the aim of analyzing interprofessionality in the area of Brazilian public health, considering its contribution to comprehensive health care with more excellence. The research sought to discuss the importance of interprofessionality in professional practices in the field of public health, based on the hypothesis that if interprofessionality is adopted in Brazilian public health care, it will be able to provide users with comprehensive monitoring with more quality, by involving and articulating professionals from diverse and different areas of knowledge in order to achieve common goals, with interconnected practices, which seek comprehensive care, which will bring more complete and more satisfactory results, as they approach the perspective of totality. This study also reflected on the social determinants of health, understanding that having good health also means having a good quality of life, and this implies accessing goods, services and public policies as social rights, and not having access can lead to illness. Within the methodological aspects, the research was characterized as being of the theoretical type, based on the bibliographical and documental dimension, as well as, it is a predominantly qualitative research; and adopted the method of historical-dialectical materialism to understand the individual inserted in his economic, political and social context, considering, therefore, his perspective of totality, in addition to considering the historicity and contradictions of life in society. The results show that health policy made great advances with the struggles of civil society in the process of conquering the Sanitary Reform, which aimed and defended public health, free of charge, with quality and universal access, but that much remains to be done of these achievements already guaranteed in the Federal Constitution of 1988, due to the obstacles posed by the Neoliberal State, which values the private sector and not the public and opposes the project of this health reform. Another result revealed that, we still need to promote, more and more, the inclusion of interprofessionality in the course of the exercises of the professional categories in the spaces of attendance in the area of the Brazilian public health, for a broader realization of an integral attention of excellence. Attention that contemplates the person in their physical/biological, emotional/mental, social, economic, cultural/sports/leisure, family, community, spiritual, political condition, that is, it translates into observing whether the person enjoys work and income enough to exercise citizenship, food and nutrition security, adequate housing, if you have or had the opportunity of a good level of school/academic education, in short, if you experience the rights of citizens, because this set of achievements of human life, if experienced in precarious or not, reflects directly on the health of each and every one, causing different levels of health. There was also a need for more education focused on interprofessionality.